Kerstin Schwarz during the gluing process of the soundboard into a new Cristofori piano in spring 2022, photo: Simon Chinnery
Kerstin Schwarz during the interview for the video with Capella Jenensis at Schloss Ettersburg (Weimar) on the 22nd October 2021, Photo: Simon Chinnery
Kerstin Schwarz during the tuning of the Silbermann piano, recording with Luca Gugllielmi and Concerto Madrigalesco in the Chiesa del Colletto in Pinerolo (Turin) in May 2022, photo: Davide Ficco

SOUND SAMPLES

LISTEN Clavecin Roïal Christlieb Siegmund Binder, Quatro for keyboard, 2 violins & bass, f major, Adagio
LISTEN Clavecin Roïal Christlieb Siegmund Binder, Trio for obblicato keyboard & viola, d major, Allegro
LISTEN Clavecin Roïal Christlieb Siegmund Binder, Trio für obblicato keyboard & flute, d-major, Rondeau Allegro
LISTEN Silbermann piano C.P.E.Bach Sonatas for Flute and Keyboard in G Major, WQ 133 H 564, Allegretto, Karel Valter, Hadrien Jourdan und Peter Skalka
LISTEN Silbermann piano (2x8'), J.S.Bach, Flute sonata in b minor, BWV 1030, Presto, Toshiyuki Shibata + Anthony Romaniuk
LISTEN Silbermann piano (Pantalon with damper), J.S.Bach, Flute sonata in b minor, BWV 1030, 12/16, Toshiyuki Shibata + Anthony Romaniuk
LISTEN Silbermann piano (Pantalon without damper), Anthony Romaniuk, Improvisation
LISTEN Silbermann piano (una corda), J.S.Bach - Anthony Romaniuk - Toshiyuki Shibata, Fantasia on a Sarabande (Partita in a minor, BWV 1013)
LISTEN Silbermann piano, J.S.Bach Concerto nach italienischem Gusto, BWV 971, Allegro, Toby Sermeus
LISTEN Silbermann piano, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Triosonate in A-Dur, Adagio, Ensemble Diderot, Philippe Grisvard playing the piano
LISTEN Cristofori piano, George Frederick Handel, Aria "Crede l'uom ch'egli riposi", Le Stagioni, Paolo Zanzu
LISTEN Cristofori piano, Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata K12, Presto

for more information see Discography

Instruments built and restored by Kerstin Schwarz

The Cristofori piano for the Museum of historic pianos in Ala (Trento, Italy) in fall 2023
The Cristofori piano made in 2023 inside the Museum of historic pianos in Ala
The new Silbermann piano before it left to Vancouver USA in October 2022, photo Kerstin Schwarz
The Cristofori piano for the La Grua Center in Stonington (USA) short before the transport to the US in February 2023, photo Kerstin Schwarz
Details of the hammer action of the Cristofori piano for the La Grua Center in Stonington (USA), photo Kerstin Schwarz
The copy of the Cristofori piano next to the Original in the  Museo degli Strumenti Musicali in Rome during the museums night on the 14th of May 2022, photo Kerstin Schwarz
The Clavecin Roïal, finished in May 2019, photo Kerstin Schwarz
Square piano by Johannes Zumpe & Gabriel Buntebart, London 1776, restored 2016 for the Museu de la Música in Barcelona, photo Kerstin Schwarz
the oval spinet from 1690 after the restoration in 2012, photo Rabatti and Dominge

Concerts and recordings 2023

Claire Gautrot and Marouan Mankar-Bennis during the concert in the marble hall of the Elisabethenburg palace in Meiningen on the 30th September 2023
Claire Gautrot and  Marouan Mankar-Bennis during the rehearsal in the marble hall of palace Elisabethenburg palace in Meiningen on the 30th September 2023
Els Biesemans and the ensemble La Festa Musicale rehearsing for the concert on the 5th of September 2023 in the church of Großhartmannsdorf (Saxony, Festival Silbermann-Tage)
The group La Festa Musicale rehearsing Bachs Triosonata for the concert in Großhartmannsdorf (Saxony) on the 5th September 2023
Jermaine Sprosse during the rehearsal for the concert with the Silbermann piano in the Eckhof theater in Gotha/ Thuringia on the 30th July 2023
Philippe Grisvard and Johannes Pramsohler during the concert in Wörlitz (Fasch-Festtage Zerbst) on the 18th June 2023
Toshi Shibata and Anthony Romaniuk during the rehearsal for the concert in Dornheim (Thüringer Bach-Tage) on the 15th of April 2023
Vincent Bernhardt bevor the recording with the Cristofori piano in the church St Laurentius in Loburg
Artem Belogurov playing the  Cristofori piano during the recording at La Grua Center in Stonington (Rhode Island, USA), 18th to the 20th March 2023

Els Biesemans and La Festa Musicale, CPE Bach concert for keyboard, strings and basso continuo (H.423 Wq.20) within the Videos at 1:29:16

Anthony Romaniuk and Toshiyuki Shibata, J.S. Bach: Sarabande, Sonata and Fugue. BWV 1013/1033/1080, chamber music hall Concertgebouw Brugge

E.W.Wolf: Clavier concert in A minor, Capella Jenensis, Begin inside the Video at 25:53

Handel, "Se la Bellezza perde vaghezza" Le Stagioni with Carlo Vistoli, Michele Zeoli and Paolo Zanzu Cristofori piano

The Clavecin Roïal - a Saxon square piano with a special Stoßmechanik and various stops

Sound samples CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Fantasia in B-flat major Wq 61/3 (1786, Kenner und Liebhaber, VI, mp3, 6'26)
Fantasia in C major Wq 59/6 (1784, Kenner und Liebhaber, V, mp3, 9'04)
Fantasia in C major Wq 61/6 (1786, Kenner und Liebhaber, VI, mp3, 6'33)

pianist: Pablo Gómez Ábalos
recording: Christopher Greenleaf

more information

The Clavecin Royal, finished in May 2019